SECT.  XX.  Admirable Order in which all the Bodies that make up the Universe are ranged.

Let us now consider the wonders that shine equally both in the largest and the smallest bodies.  On the one side, I see the sun so many thousand times bigger than the earth; I see him circulating in a space, in comparison of which he is himself but a bright atom.  I see other stars, perhaps still bigger than he, that roll in other regions, still farther distant from us.  Beyond those regions, which escape all measure, I still confusedly perceive other stars, which can neither be counted nor distinguished.  The earth, on which I stand, is but one point, in proportion to the whole, in which no bound can ever be found.  The whole is so well put together, that not one single atom can be put out of its place without unhinging this immense machine; and it moves in such excellent order that its very motion perpetuates its variety and perfection.  Sure it must be the hand of a being that does everything without any trouble that still keeps steady, and governs this great work for so many ages; and whose fingers play with the universe, to speak with the Scripture.